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It is the most expansive war in human history, and it is occurring on every continent. Unlike all previous wars, this one is truly a world war beca...
- Added: Jan 06, 2020
- Length: 27:37
David Hudson has been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:19
David Hudson had been principal of Linwood Holton Elementary School for thirteen years now. When he took over the reins of command, the school—thou...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 27:11
The third graders of "Third Grade Audio" made two Service Learning podcasts. Each one is about a social service organization which is working to he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 1
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 27, 2018
- Length: 23:44
Jonathan Austin is a North Side Richmonder who began juggling when he was just 12-years old. Two years later he performed his first professional gi...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 27:02
The schools claim there is zero tolerance for bully, but one school system practices bullying against students and parents alike.
- Added: Apr 18, 2017
- Length: 21:35
The Miracle Workers of Holton Elementary School are Christal Mark, Ricky Gay, Mary Pace, Robin Barber, Cheryll Hughes and Latonya Brown-Oliver. Wha...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 23:46
Jim Henson would have been 80 years old on September 24, 2016. Learn the story of his career and short life.
- Added: Sep 25, 2016
- Length: 09:00
Abbie Waters lived in Richmond, Virginia and attended Holton Elementary School. She had survived a rare form of cancer called rhabdomyosarcoma. F...
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 27:28
Abbie Catherine Waters was just nine years and two days old when she left this world. I have heard men and women who knew Abbie refer to her as an ...
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 26:25
Elisheva and Amaris,
mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 26:51
Elisheva and Amaris, mother and daughter, know a thing or two about uphill battles where every inch of gained ground costs dearly. Each in her way ...
- Added: May 07, 2016
- Length: 27:49
Aristotle said it best: “Nature abhors a vacuum.” Whenever there is a void in our lives we fill it, consciously or otherwise. Too often, people tr...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 26:45
Live Art,sponsored the School of the Performing Arts in the Richmond Community, is the only program of its kind in the country, or the world for t...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 24:21
Video game critics say computer-generated play keeps kids glued to a screen. But at Createch Studio--a community center in St. Paul--staff are usin...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:26
Art teacher and glass sculptor Rolanda Scott was first diagnosed with breast cancer years ago, but she kept teaching and for the longest while surv...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 28:20
Sometimes art can ease your pain, maybe even save your life. And the medium you started working in sometimes becomes another form all together.
Rol...
- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 25:30
Michael Powell is a train driver for the Chicago Transit Authority. He captivated me for years with his chatty speeches over the train's speakers. ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 03:05
- Purchases: 1
Death traps by any American standard, adventure playgrounds are every child’s dream.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KGOU, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 5
A group of readers heads out to tent camps around Haiti to read to children displaced by the earthquake.
- Added: Nov 22, 2010
- Length: 07:52
When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:18
Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 2
Meet Lindsay Ordower from Mount Holyoke College. She came to Teach for America determined to succeed. But on any given school day, Lindsay’s classr...
- Added: Apr 22, 2010
- Length: 05:41